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Open call for application Skammdegi AiR and Skammdegi Festival
2 months immersing in Iceland dark winter

About Skammdegi
Skammdegi in Icelandic means the Dark Winter, a condition that is a yearly right of passage in this part of the world. At it’s darkest on December 21, the mysterious local daylight is present for less than 4 hours, the rest is night. Surrounded by mountains on three sides and looking directly at the Northern Atlantic on the other, Olafsfjordur in North Iceland is the uniquely beautiful location of Listhús. During the months of December and January, the sun never rises higher than the surrounding mountains. The land is covered by a mysterious light reflected from the snow-covered mountains. The atmosphere creates a special environmental and emotional challenge. Local people eager to raise their spirits in the long night light up their houses with colourful lights and celebrate the distinctive Icelandic Christmas traditions till January 6th. As the winter progresses, the sun gradually climbs the mountains until the first ray of sunshine glows on the highest local peak on January 21. By the end of the month the sunshine will once again reach the town itself.

Having recently completed its forth running, Skammdegi Festival has formed a distinct character. Our principal aim of is providing a hospitable environment and a rare atmosphere for artists doing experiments that they cannot implement elsewhere. While the location is remote and doesn’t have the resources present in a larger city, our artists feel the freedom of creation. The residency duration is long enough for artists to explore a new place, establish a new idea and achieve its implementation.

The Fish Factory Art Space CIC is offering a rolling programme of 2-4 week residencies at it’s new venue in Penryn, Cornwall. Opened in 2011 by local artist Rose Hatcher, the Fish Factory has provided a forum for both Cornish emerging artists and international collaborators working in challenging and diverse mediums from interactive installations, to murals, to photomontage, printmaking, music and film. We are looking for artists that want to engage with our lively and varied programme of contemporary, alternative and innovative visual arts, performance and events.

Fish Factory Art Space inhabits a former sail loft in Penryn, Cornwall, South West England. It houses studios, a small event space/independant gallery, a vegan cafe and a small shop. Running since 2011 the Fish Factory has recently moved from it’s former home on Falmouth Wharves to a new permanent space in Penryn. The diverse offerings have one thing in common: that they flourish in the open and welcoming atmosphere the Fish Factory offers. A definite alternative to the corporate mainstream face of modern art today.

We will provide you with a desk space in our open plan co-work space, as well access to our shared print making, b/w darkroom and photography studio. In addition you can take advantage of our vegan cafe, small art shop and our acoustic recording studio (by arrangement).

You will have the option of holding a public event and exhibition, but this is not essential as we see this residency as more a way for you to develop a project, network and a chance to experience the Cornish art scene.

Residency costs: £200-£350 (2-4wks). You will be required to pay a 50% non-refundable deposit on acceptance of your place.

We can provide a range of accommodation for the duration of your stay from £150- £350, please ask us for more information on these options.

Studio Faire is a brand new contemporary art centre in South West France, providing mini residencies for artists, writers, musicians and all other creative practitioners.

Residents live and work in the house, studios and gardens of Studio Faire, a small mansion built around 1840 and still retaining its period characteristics. Rooms and studios are spacious and mature gardens offer private, shaded space for work and play.

Studio Faire’s residencies can offer time to focus on research and development to inspire a new body of work, to start here and carry your practice into the future.

Studio Faire’s residencies can nurture the growth of seedling ideas by giving you the space to unselfconsciously experiment and play.

Studio Faire’s residencies can offer a change of pace from your normal routine, allowing time for problem solving, support through constructive feedback or the opportunity to try out ideas on a local audience before revealing them to the world.

Studio Faire’s residencies can bring about cross-disciplinary collaboration or simply introduce you to new friends from different walks of life.

Created by Biennale de Paris, the World Art Economies Forum (FoméA) will take place from June 30 to July 1st, 2018 in Paris.

Talks, workshops, courses, panel discussions and documentaires stand will take place over two days. The World Art Economies Forum (FoméA) will gather players of the art world, society and economy around the subject of alternative economic initiatives in the art market.

Forum goals
– promote alternative economies to the object-based art market;
– strenghten independent economies of the art market serving of artists and structures;
– promote innovative economies in the field of art and culture;
– favor synergies and collaborations between the actors in these economies;
– generate inclusive business models;
– accomodate initiatives and projects in line with these objectives;
– support anything that challenges the hegemony of the art market.

Why are we organizing this forum ?
The forum claims that art economy is not limited to the art marketand that the market is not the factor legitimizing living artists. In a political, economic and social context of Europe and the world, marked by nationalist tendencies and the decline of neo-liberalism, the World Forum of Economies of Art (FoméA) has been created as a response to the influence and the monopoly the art market has on artists and art.

The art market controls the whole established eco-system thatresponds primarily to the needs of only a limited partthe art world actors. The work of the Biennale de Paris has revealed over the course of over 15 years that more and more contemporary artistsand their practices are completely excluded from this system that has become somewhat archaic and disconnected from the realities of art. The art market being a factor of exclusion and discrimination is not suitable for all contemporary art.

Forum modus operandi
The forum will provide a unique context generating a realcritique through concrete actions, initiatives and proposals which might also turn out to be solutions alternative to the art market. The forum will be organized in the form of an archipelago of stands with its own autonomous dynamics. With a circulation between all the players, the forum will be structured as a holding.

Any entity (individuals, groups, networks, federations, unions, organizations,structures, institutions, etc.) can freely participate in the forum by proposing any type of initiative (projet, activity, idea, etc) regardless of their progress of feasibility.

Applications are processed in the order they are received andcan be done in french or english. Participants can working in any language during the forum.

ENDA is a graduate school for research and experimentation in art based in Paris and New York. It is the educational branch of the Biennale de Paris.

ENDA offers to its researchers, a course of study that aims to liberate them from the inherited ideas of 20th century art, and proposes an inquiry into the crucial issues of 21st century art, whose history is now unfolding and in which they might eventually participate.

ENDA is open to all those who have an interest in singular and extreme practices which currently and sporadically appear in the art world and elsewhere.

ENDA is for those who want to change their artistic practice or professional activity, for those who after several years of art school want to break free of alienated learning, who expect more from a school than a framework for artistic production, for those who reject art as it is commonly practiced, and finally for those who wish to work on essential issues.